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Understanding Early Civilizations: Key Ingredients for Success

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Explore the foundations of early civilizations that emerged around 7-9,000 years ago in fertile areas like the Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China. Learn about essential factors such as access to fresh water, protection from invaders, and resource availability, which contributed to their success. Discover the significance of labor specialization, social structures, and roles within these early societies, including the ruling class, merchants, artisans, and the vital contributions of women. Unravel what made these ancient civilizations thrive.

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  1. Early Civilizations Guided Lecture

  2. Where: • The first civilizations formed where Farming started. • These locations provided several things needed to make a civilization successful.

  3. Water: • Fresh water • Rivers • Fishing, • Irrigation • Travel • Trade • protection

  4. Protection: • From climate, invaders • Walls • Big river • Mountains • Ditches • Lakes • Seas

  5. Resources: • Water • fertile soil • Fairly flat • Trees • Stone • Ore (metals)

  6. Some early civilizations were: Egypt, located along the Nile Valley,

  7. Sumeria and Babalonia, located in Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates Valleys),

  8. In the Indus Valley, • and the Shang civilization in China

  9. When: • People begin to become sedentary (Stay where they are). • The earliest civilizations began around 7-9 KYA

  10. Civilization: • To have a successful civilization requires the following four ingredients:

  11. 1. Specialization of Labor: • there are a variety of jobs and roles for men, women and children, • some with more power and wealth than others.

  12. Specialization of Labor: • The ruling class • the most wealthy and powerful. • Merchants, artisans and government officials • small, fairly well-off group.

  13. Specialization of Labor: • peasants or poor farmers. • Slaves, • usually war captives, • also included children sold to cover debts. • In some societies (Egypt, Sumeria) women could own property and hold official jobs.